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Plane-crashes because of collision with bees ???
I heard that a collision between a plane and a bee can be devastating.
Is that true ? |
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If it's an open cockpit and the bee hits the pilot, sure.
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Dan Simper wrote: I heard that a collision between a plane and a bee can be devastating. Is that true ? I have a hard time imagining a common scenario where this could happen. A bee hitting an airplane will usually just go Splat! A few years ago I had the misfortune of riding my motorcycle through a swarm of large bumble bees at 85 mph. The impacts were a little painful, but certainly not dangerous. The worst part was having to spend about 15 min. digging fried bee goo out of the cooling fins on my cylinders. John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180) |
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Dan Simper wrote: I heard that a collision between a plane and a bee can be devastating. Is that true ? I have a hard time imagining a common scenario where this could happen. A bee hitting an airplane will usually just go Splat! A few years ago I had the misfortune of riding my motorcycle through a swarm of large bumble bees at 85 mph. The impacts were a little painful, but certainly not dangerous. The worst part was having to spend about 15 min. digging fried bee goo out of the cooling fins on my cylinders. John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180) |
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"Dan Simper" wrote: I heard that a collision between a plane and a bee can be devastating. Is that true ? It might have been the "golden beebee" that you heard about. That's a single, lucky shot from the ground that hits just the right spot on the airplane (or the pilot) to bring it down. -- Dan C-172RG at BFM |
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I swallowed a bee once while riding my bicycle to work. Stung me in the
back of my throat. Since I worked in a hospital, and was only a couple of miles from there, already at speed with my heart rate up, I figured my best option was to keep going, hoping my airway didn't obstruct before I got there. Went straight up to my department (anesthesia), grabbed the first anesthesiologist I saw and told him what had happened. We went straight down to the ENT clinic and they found a bee sting sticking in the back of my throat behind the uvula. I felt terrible for hours. A bee can certainly bring down a bikie. I have serious doubts about an airplane, though. OTOH, I heard once of a 172 that was nearly brought down when the pilots opened the air vents after takeoff and out came a swarm of angry wasps that had nested in the air vent intake while the plane was on the ground. I think that was in "I learned about flying from that" 25 years ago or so. Ouch! -- Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways) wrote in message oups.com... Dan Simper wrote: I heard that a collision between a plane and a bee can be devastating. Is that true ? I have a hard time imagining a common scenario where this could happen. A bee hitting an airplane will usually just go Splat! A few years ago I had the misfortune of riding my motorcycle through a swarm of large bumble bees at 85 mph. The impacts were a little painful, but certainly not dangerous. The worst part was having to spend about 15 min. digging fried bee goo out of the cooling fins on my cylinders. John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180) |
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Bob Chilcoat wrote: OTOH, I heard once of a 172 that was nearly brought down when the pilots opened the air vents after takeoff and out came a swarm of angry wasps that had nested in the air vent intake while the plane was on the ground. I had a wasp come in the air intake of a 150 on final once. I made the mid-field exit, pulled the mixture, and said "your airplane" as I went out the door. George Patterson He who would distinguish what is true from what is false must have an adequate understanding of truth and falsehood. |
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On 2005-02-09, Dan Simper wrote:
I heard that a collision between a plane and a bee can be devastating. It's not so much the bees, it's what the rest of the tree with the nest does that really causes problems. -- Ben Jackson http://www.ben.com/ |
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And did the instructor hang around to taxi the plane?
Seems like a good argument for the mesh I've seen in some plane's vent inlets. -Malcolm Teas |
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